Substantially thinner internal granular layer and reduced molecular layer surface in the cerebellum of the Tc1 mouse model of Down Syndrome - a comprehensive morphometric analysis with active staining contrast-enhanced MRI
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Journal Article
Abstract
Down Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that affects the development of cerebellar cortical lobules. Impaired neurogenesis in the cerebellum varies among different types of neuronal cells and neuronal layers. In this study, we developed an imaging analysis framework that utilizes gadolinium-enhanced ex vivo mouse brain MRI. We extracted the middle Purkinje layer of the mouse cerebellar cortex, enabling the estimation of the volume, thickness, and surface area of the entire cerebellar cortex, the internal granular layer, and the molecular layer in the Tc1 mouse model of Down Syndrome. The morphometric analysis of our method revealed that a larger proportion of the cerebellar thinning in this model of Down Syndrome resided in the inner granule cell layer, while a larger proportion of the surface area shrinkage was in the molecular layer.
Date Issued
2020-12-01
Date Acceptance
2020-08-10
Citation
NeuroImage, 2020, 223, pp.117271-117271
ISSN
1053-8119
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
117271
End Page
117271
Journal / Book Title
NeuroImage
Volume
223
Copyright Statement
©2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835824
PII: S1053-8119(20)30757-6
Subjects
Active staining
Cerebellar cortical laminar structure
Contrast-enhanced MRI
Cortical surface area
Cortical thickness
Cortical volume
Down Syndrome
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Article Number
ARTN 117271
Date Publish Online
2020-08-22